December 13th-16th 2013 :: Theme: You Only Get One
[ Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals | Warmup Weekend ]
/!\ Music Bug: If the music doesn't play anymore, just restart the game, that should do the trick...
Post-Mortem over here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/22/will-you-be-the-1-post-mortem/
Synopsis:
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So many of them... it's comforting to not be alone in this adventure.
But how the saddest part is probably to know that only one of us will survive.
Life is too precious, we have to succeed. I have to succeed.
About:
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Compete against players from all around the world, and try to be the 1.
Controls:
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* Move: Use your Mouse
* Validate: Left Click
Notes:
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* This is an online, game. The server might crash or have bugs making the experience quite poor. I'll do my best to keep everything up,!
* GAME NOT STARTING: You may want to refresh. If still not, leave a comment I'll see what I can do.
* GAME SUPER SLOW: First of all, Google Chrome is a generally a good a choice to play HTML5 games. This game hasn't been minified yet, it should improve things a bit :)
* NO SOUNDS/MUSIC: Yep, it's still so much fun to deal with that using HTML5. It might be a bit buggy or simply not work (older firefox do not support MP3s).
Enjoy!
Yosh.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 85% |
| #72 | Innovation | 3.74 |
| #191 | Fun | 3.37 |
| #218 | Audio | 3.06 |
| #222 | Overall | 3.37 |
| #351 | Mood | 2.97 |
| #557 | Theme | 2.76 |
| #641 | Humor | 1.93 |
| #809 | Graphics | 2.25 |
Comments
Ha! Got to be the number one with 95 seconds. Really simple yet cool game. Are the other cursor recordings of earlier players?
Really reminded me of this: http://donottouch.org/ Was it an inspiration? :-)
It was quite challenging and addictive, i love how simple but fun it is. Nice work !
Wow, the game is interesting. Somewhat I'm addicted to this game.
UPDATE: Music & sounds are more or less working. The game now takes even longer to load, hurray! #HTML5 #wow #soFuture.
@burgerdare: Problem solved!
@ParaPup: See above!
@Jin47: Thank you =)
@kyyrma: Well as unlucky as this could seem, if you see that time it means you have died at the very end :D (sorry)
@LatFoued, @BlazingFanfish: Many thanks to you two ;)
@hamster_mk_4: Sorry about that, I'm getting more and more fedup with my way of dealing with game assets (notably everything related to audio). If I ever come to use this engine for future projects, I'll make sure to get away this frustration of having the loading stuck. In the meantime I would attempt a restart, if still nothing I'd be interested to debug the issue with you.
The ranking/async multiplayer stuff really makes it stand out, great job.
sorry to say that i barely could play the game. it seems to have a critical bug.
I had a glitch where the music didn't restart after playing a second time. Really cool async competitive game!
@Bruno: What kind of bug was that critical? Last time I got some weird behavior from the games (wrong collision detection etc.) it was because of the developer console open while playing. Could you tell me more by any chance?
@Nick Weihs: I'm fighting hard against this stupid bug, it's really making me crazy right now ><
I really loved the concept of the game. Simple but very fun and addictive and also a very good use of the theme.
Nice work!
This game reminds be of a very experimental music video that did the same sort of thing except you couldn't lose in that one. Great work!
REALLY addicting game! Awesome idea! One of the best entries in this compo thanks for it's challenge! :D
If you have time,please consider rating my game! I would really appreciate it!:D
Really fun! Not very complex but I love how it plays out. Good job, this is what Ludum Dare is about.
Really interesting! So you get to see a score if you finish prematurely, but you get nothing if you finish the game - which is presumably very short?
Other than that great idea!
And i had even sound on Firefox..
I tried to play but the loader seems to never end. :| Is the server down ?
Very well done. Simple and interesting, wish it was longer. Would be neat if there were other levels, other patterns to follow.
Yeah!!! Good graphics, good sounds and very good gameplay!! :D 46.51 seconds :D
Pretty cool gameplay and music, and I like that you show the number of people who've gone that far (btw, are the stats real?). It'd be even cooler if the other mouse cursors are actual mouse movements from people who played the game.
^ it's actually other people. I record movements from all the sessions, classify them by performance to give the feeling that more and more people are failing as you progress. The only problem is the lag when replaying player records... which gives this feeling that we have some kind of crappy cheating AI :)
Also, the stats are real, the server crashed recently so I might have lost some data though :)
Oh yeah, 17th person to finish. Great twist on the mouse avoider genre. It's not showing all of the other mouse cursors?
The concept is nice, but the session seems to end prematurely when I don't die :/
Anyway I really like the concept !
5 stars for innovation, this is a fantastic interpretation on the theme. Really awesome work! :)
@Bradley: Thanks, most people didn't see the twist. The one you can see at the end screen is basically supposed to represent a heart-beat, and your cursor was all along... sperm :D
Ok got it, I didn't think it was other players because they kept running into the dark areas. Now it makes sense.
Cool concept and solid implementation. Although I understood nothing at the beginning it gets quite clear soon. It is more a memory than a reaction game, but that is ok for me.
Good Work!
Excellent game. Love what you did recording and playing back other's movements.
^ Sorry I was out for a while. And to my very own surprise, it was the web server that died this time -.-
All good again!
(Ok now I know why it's such a pain to run online games ==> maintenance :D)
Man - all stars for the innovation. If this is original idea it is material for a hit - you just need a better execution and marketing.
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web link seems to be broken in firefox.